Marcus Berley, LMHC(He/Him/His)

Marcus Berley is a licensed mental health counselor whose practice centers on divorce; clients who are weighing whether to leave a marriage, navigating the legal and emotional churn of separation, or rebuilding a life and identity in the years that follow. Many are parents, and many arrive thoughtful and well-read, frustrated that insight alone hasn't moved them forward. Alongside this work, he sees couples who still genuinely care for each other but keep colliding around conflict, communication, or intimacy, and neurodivergent adults, along with the partners and parents of neurodivergent people, who want a clinician fluent in how ADHD and autism actually shape daily life.

His style is warm, pragmatic, and direct. Rather than nodding along, he engages actively, offers honest feedback, and keeps sessions oriented toward what matters most to the client. His approach is relational and eclectic, drawing on internal family systems, psychodynamic theory, and family-systems thinking, with practical behavioral experiments encouraged between sessions to test what's emerging in real life. He believes the therapeutic relationship itself is the engine of change, and he works to make it a real one.

His specialization in divorce is also personal: his own divorce in 2017 was both devastating and clarifying, and that experience fundamentally shaped how he understands this kind of pain and what it takes to move through it.

Marcus earned his MA in Systems Counseling from Saybrook University in 2012, following a BA in Philosophy from Cornell. His earlier career spanned community mental health, in-home family therapy with juvenile-justice-involved families, and public education with students on the autism spectrum. He is an approved clinical supervisor in Rhode Island and Washington.

Marcus practices entirely via telehealth, is licensed in Rhode Island and Washington State, and is an out-of-network provider; he offers monthly superbills for clients seeking insurance reimbursement.